Robert Downey Jr. recalls meeting with Christopher Nolan about playing the Scarecrow in 2005 Batman Begins.
The actor made these comments during a question-and-answer session with the audience after the film’s screening Oppenheimer At the Aero Theater in Los Angeles.
“I’m pretty sure I heard like, ‘There’s this role, Scarecrow,’ and I was like, ‘Psh, I’m a scarecrow,’” says Downey Jr. in the video shared on X (fka Twitter) by Griffin.
He continued: “I remember meeting him for tea, and I said to him, ‘He doesn’t seem really inclined to have this interview.’ He was polite and all that, but I mean, you know, you can tell when someone says, ‘It’s not going to go your way.’ “.
The role of Dr. Jonathan Crane, the Scarecrow, would eventually go to Downey Jr Oppenheimer Co-star Cillian Murphy. Nola recently recalled why she cast Murphy as the villain instead of the titular character Batman Begins.
In an interview with Electronic warfareNolan said he had been reading about Murphy’s heroism After 28 days But after a screen test, the actor said it didn’t feel like “Batman material.”
“We did two scenes — there was a Bruce Wayne scene and a Batman scene — and I made sure the executives came and saw what you were doing on set,” Nolan recalls. “Everyone was so excited to see you do it when I said to them afterwards: ‘Okay, Christian Bale is Batman, but what about Cillian playing Scarecrow?’ There was no opposition.”
Nolan continued, “All the previous Batman villains have been played by big movie stars: Jack Nicholson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Carrey, that kind of thing. That was a big leap for them and it was really based on that test. That’s the way it is.” In which you have to play the role of a scarecrow.